Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 4 June 2026 to Question 4454, how many employees in HMPPS are under the Government's "Occupational Psychologist" profession, broken down into (a) forensic psychologists and (b) non-forensic psychologists.

A range of psychology-related occupations are categorised under the “occupational psychologist” profession in official statistics. As of 8 June 2026, 496 registered psychologists were employed by HM Prison & Probation Service. 490 of these (99%) are forensic psychologists. The other groups in the occupational psychologist category are: trainee psychologists (all of whom are training to be forensic psychologists); groupworkers; treatment managers; and psychology administrators.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.